Good evening, afternoon, or morning to you, people of r/conlangs. Today's Saturday, and that means it's time for another typological paper! Once again, there will be some prompts for you to discuss in the comments.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays! Since Christmas has been keeping me busy lately, I didn't really have the time or energy to choose a paper, so today we'll be doing the whole TyPoW thingy without the P. In this week's edition you'll be able to talk about the way your conspeakers deal with festivities! Now onto the propmts:
- Do your conspeakers celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah or any other important cultural event?
- What are some important words that are contained within that semantic field?
- Are there any prominent morphosyntactic constructions that are commonly used while celebrating? (E.g. Optatives for wishes etc.)
- Are there any interesting pragmatic/discourse-level phenomena relating to festivities (E.g. a special ritual register etc.)
Remember to try to comment on other people's languages
Submit your papers here!
So, that's about it for this week's edition. See you next Saturday, and happy conlanging!